A beautifully written fantasy slice-of-life serial about a noblewoman trying to retain her sanity in a restrictive world. Subtle, rich and sporadically updated. Don't let the dates confuse you; she's backdating so that the time of year and day of week in the story match up with the real world.

Set in my home town, this urban fantasy eschews the usual vampires and werewolves for an intelligent, erudite but accessible story of a world that exists beneath the already-weird veneer of Portland, Oregon. If you liked "Neverwhere," you'll like this.

Web Comics

No1 Daughter's webcomic about goth fairy Violet Jones, cheerful fairy Julian Robbit, his sister Sira, and the knomes who want to eat them. Yes, "knomes." One of them wears a chef hat. She's only 1213 14; stick through the earlier chapters and watch her talent explode as she progressively improves. I am seriously proud of this kid. Note: She's on hiatus right now and will be starting the entire story over again soon.

BUT! Sandra has gone on with this related comic, in which she has promised the "Hostility" characters will appear from time to time. Just started. That said, do go read the archive of Friendly Hostility. It's so very good.

If all you know him from is Star Trek, you don't know him. One of the geekiest guys of his generation, which is a compliment, and a heckuva writer. Funny as hell, a super nice guy--a mensch--and designer of my current favorite t-shirt. You need to read him

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Love Tales of Mu and Crowfeathers only problem is Crowfeathers seems to update slower then usual lately. Also have a thing for The Realms of Aegis a sort of midievil comic involving conflict and the gods of the land. Another comic I enjoy is Something Positive which I'm sorta ashamed to say I got hooked on when a co-worker showed me the comic's first strip that appealed to my twisted side.

Yes it is a nice strip thanks for the notice on the downtime hadn't bothered to read the post at the bottom just kept checking the page and seeing the same Chapther 30 page. On a sidenote I'm loving the Alien loves Predator from the web comics you listed so thanks something more for me to read on downtimes.

Sometimes it just vanishes and I have no idea why. Sadly, I am a David Tennant fan. Loves me some Dr Who and Blackpool. My favorite version of my favorite Shakespeare play ("Much Ado about Nothing") is an audio version with him as Benedick. Hi-larious and fully brogue'd. (For further geeky goodness in that version? Chiwetal Ejiofor, "Serenity" Operative, as Claudio.)

"The Phoenix Requiem" is gorgeous, and I wish I could hire her to do art for me.

I found this youtube compilation about The Master a few steps removed from your twitter, Mei, so you may have already seen it--if not, enjoy! This was the closest thing to a Dr Who thread (ok, reference) that I found on short notice.

Alexandra Erin, in addition to ToMU, has another wondiferous web serial called Star Harbor Nights. The universe has been restarted several times, sometimes with minor changes and sometimes with major ones. However, six or seven years later I am still in love with it. AE updates SHN on Tuesdays and Thursdays usually. Current one: starharbornights.com Old/archives: starharbornights.net

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate place to comment. I wanted to suggest that you might like xkcd.com. It's a favourite webcomic of mine, sometimes exclusively geeky, but there are many many gems at that site. Here's one to get you started http://xkcd.com/150/

I also wanted to say thanks for the fantastic read. I only started a couple days ago and I'm already at chapter 30. It was the first thing I did when I got to work this morning, even before checking my e-mail Thanks again.

its wierd to know that after roughly 3 years of reading EVERY webcomic i can get my hands on i know all of these now, well mostly, btw i think crowfeathers has shut down, the author was unhappy with the work and is redoing it. which is a shame because i was really getting into it.

... whether Wes Boyd's Spearfish Lake Tales fit the description of web novel/web serial, seeing as most of them have been written before, never got published, and are only now being published online in serial form as well as on Lulu. I'd still like to recommend them, because I love them.

Boyd's novels weave a web of interconnected stories spanning three decades starting in the 1970s, (almost) all centered around the fictional small town of Spearfish Lake in the Northwoods of Michigan, or at least people from that town. Some are love stories, some are action novels, some are comedies. They often feature adventurous outdoor activities like dog sled racing, white water kayaking/rafting, surfing, long distance hiking or small plane flying and while there are some that failed to grab me, those that did have managed to hold fast and never quite let go. I especially recommend:

1. Busted Axle Road and Runner's Moon. The former is a comedy, the latter in equal parts adventure, love story and coming of age tale. They kinda go together, and while I felt that both had pacing problems (BAR felt a bit hectic and RM skipped around a bit much towards the end) they were well worth the time it took to read them.
2. The Next Generation, a love story and coming of age tale of a handicapped girl growing into a competent woman.
3. Dawnwalker, again a love story and coming of age tale, with a good bit of family drama thrown in for good measure. This is the one I finished last night at 1 o'clock, reading chapter after chapter with increasingly bleary eyes because I just plain couldn't put it down. While it felt a bit slow in the middle and the ending was both forced and rather predictable, I found it a touching and addicting read. Contrary to my previous plans, which were to go back to reading some S/F after this one, I'll instead start the next book in the Dawnwalker sub-series (Alone Together) ASAP, meaning today at lunch break.

I wholeheartedly second that recommendation. Mr Gazis is having entirely unreasonable amounts of fun with his serial, although I do have to say that some knowledge of Star Trek (especially The Original Series) and other bits and bobs of geek pop culture greatly enhances the experience of reading his work. I'm also quite taken with how Signalman Jenkins seems like the illegitimate child of Steadfast Jenks and a small, cute Deus Ex Machina.

In other news, would it be possible to mark the most recent addition to this page in some way?